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<a name="gtkfilechooser-selection-modes"></a>Selection Modes</h2></div></div></div>
<p>
      <a class="link" href="GtkFileChooser.html" title="GtkFileChooser"><span class="type">GtkFileChooser</span></a> can be used in two modes, to select a single file at a 
      time or to select a set of more than one file.  To set this, use
      <a class="link" href="GtkFileChooser.html#gtk-file-chooser-set-select-multiple" title="gtk_file_chooser_set_select_multiple ()"><code class="function">gtk_file_chooser_set_select_multiple()</code></a>.  In single-selection
      mode, you can use <a class="link" href="GtkFileChooser.html#gtk-file-chooser-get-filename" title="gtk_file_chooser_get_filename ()"><code class="function">gtk_file_chooser_get_filename()</code></a> to get a file
      name from the local file system or <a class="link" href="GtkFileChooser.html#gtk-file-chooser-get-uri" title="gtk_file_chooser_get_uri ()"><code class="function">gtk_file_chooser_get_uri()</code></a> to
      get a full-formed URI.  In multiple-selection mode, you can use
      <a class="link" href="GtkFileChooser.html#gtk-file-chooser-get-filenames" title="gtk_file_chooser_get_filenames ()"><code class="function">gtk_file_chooser_get_filenames()</code></a> to get a <a
href="/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/glib/glib-Singly-Linked-Lists.html#GSList"
><span class="type">GSList</span></a> of filename strings, or
      <a class="link" href="GtkFileChooser.html#gtk-file-chooser-get-uris" title="gtk_file_chooser_get_uris ()"><code class="function">gtk_file_chooser_get_uris()</code></a> to get a list of URI strings.
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      Also, you can configure <a class="link" href="GtkFileChooser.html" title="GtkFileChooser"><span class="type">GtkFileChooser</span></a> to select files
      or folders.  Consider a backup program that needs to let the
      user select a folder that will be backed up along with its
      subfolders.  To configure whether <a class="link" href="GtkFileChooser.html" title="GtkFileChooser"><span class="type">GtkFileChooser</span></a> is used to select
      files or folders, use <a class="link" href="GtkFileChooser.html#gtk-file-chooser-set-action" title="gtk_file_chooser_set_action ()"><code class="function">gtk_file_chooser_set_action()</code></a>.  In
      addition, this lets you configure whether the file chooser will
      be used to select existing files or folders (e.g. for
      "File/Open"), or to type in new filenames (for
      "File/Save As...").
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